Top Bebop Albums
1 |
331 |
John Coltrane |
Giant Steps |
Hard Bop
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|
1960 |
2 |
383 |
Sonny Rollins |
Saxophone Colossus |
Hard Bop
|
|
1957 |
3 |
394 |
Charles Mingus |
Mingus Ah Um |
Post-Bop
|
|
1959 |
4 |
518 |
Thelonious Monk |
Genius of Modern Music (Volume One) |
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1951 |
5 |
531 |
Thelonious Monk |
Brilliant Corners |
Hard Bop
|
|
1957 |
6 |
642 |
Oliver Nelson |
The Blues and the Abstract Truth |
Hard Bop
|
|
1961 |
7 |
683 |
The Quintet |
Jazz at Massey Hall/The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever |
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1953 |
8 |
686 |
John Coltrane |
My Favorite Things |
Post-Bop
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Modal Jazz
|
1961 |
9 |
698 |
Cannonball Adderley |
Somethin' Else |
Hard Bop
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|
1958 |
10 |
714 |
John Coltrane |
Blue Train |
Hard Bop
|
|
1958 |
11 |
737 |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers |
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers [Moanin'] |
Hard Bop
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|
1959 |
12 |
760 |
Wayne Shorter |
Speak No Evil |
Post-Bop
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|
1966 |
13 |
857 |
Wes Montgomery |
The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery |
Hard Bop
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|
1960 |
14 |
860 |
Lee Morgan |
The Sidewinder |
Hard Bop
|
|
1964 |
15 |
889 |
Horace Silver |
Song for My Father |
Hard Bop
|
|
1965 |
16 |
898 |
Bud Powell |
The Amazing Bud Powell |
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1952 |
17 |
906 |
Charles Mingus |
Pithecanthropus Erectus |
Post-Bop
|
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1956 |
18 |
1047 |
Charles Mingus |
Blues and Roots |
Post-Bop
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|
1960 |
19 |
1084 |
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane |
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane |
Hard Bop
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|
1961 |
20 |
1141 |
Thelonious Monk |
Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2 |
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|
1952 |
21 |
1149 |
Clifford Brown & Max Roach |
Daahoud/Clifford Brown & Max Roach |
Hard Bop
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1954 |
22 |
1163 |
Sonny Rollins |
The Bridge |
Hard Bop
|
|
1962 |
23 |
1165 |
Miles Davis |
Milestones |
Hard Bop
|
|
1958 |
24 |
1235 |
Sonny Rollins |
Way Out West |
Hard Bop
|
|
1957 |
25 |
1249 |
John Coltrane |
Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard |
Hard Bop
|
Modal Jazz
|
1962 |
26 |
1250 |
Sonny Rollins |
A Night at the "Village Vanguard" |
Hard Bop
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|
1958 |
27 |
1343 |
Miles Davis |
Nefertiti |
Post-Bop
|
Modal Jazz
|
1968 |
28 |
1356 |
Dexter Gordon |
Our Man in Paris |
Hard Bop
|
|
1963 |
29 |
1359 |
Art Blakey Quintet |
A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 |
Hard Bop
|
|
1954 |
30 |
1407 |
Hank Mobley |
Soul Station |
Hard Bop
|
|
1960 |
31 |
1408 |
Dexter Gordon |
Go |
Hard Bop
|
|
1962 |
32 |
1462 |
Miles Davis |
Round About Midnight |
Hard Bop
|
|
1957 |
33 |
1466 |
Miles Davis |
Miles Smiles |
Post-Bop
|
Modal Jazz
|
1967 |
34 |
1572 |
Charles Mingus |
Tijuana Moods/New Tijuana Moods |
Post-Bop
|
|
1962 |
35 |
1605 |
Chick Corea |
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs |
Post-Bop
|
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1968 |
36 |
1633 |
Thelonious Monk |
Monk's Music |
Hard Bop
|
|
1958 |
37 |
1679 |
McCoy Tyner |
The Real McCoy |
Post-Bop
|
|
1967 |
38 |
1688 |
Sun Ra |
Jazz in Silhouette |
Post-Bop
|
|
1958 |
39 |
1691 |
Sonny Clark |
Cool Struttin' |
Hard Bop
|
|
1958 |
40 |
1785 |
Charles Mingus |
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus |
Post-Bop
|
|
1964 |
41 |
1863 |
Wayne Shorter |
Juju |
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Modal Jazz
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1965 |
42 |
1867 |
Horace Silver |
Horace Silver Quintet (Vol. 1 & 2)/Horace Silver and The Jazz Messengers |
Hard Bop
|
|
1955 |
43 |
1876 |
Miles Davis |
Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet |
Hard Bop
|
|
1957 |
44 |
1877 |
Miles Davis |
Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet |
Hard Bop
|
|
1961 |
45 |
1881 |
Jackie McLean |
Let Freedom Ring |
Post-Bop
|
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1962 |
46 |
1907 |
Dizzy Gillespie |
Groovin' High |
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1955 |
47 |
1930 |
J. J. Johnson |
With Clifford Brown/The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 1 |
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1953 |
48 |
1934 |
Sonny Rollins |
Freedom Suite |
Hard Bop
|
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1958 |
49 |
1935 |
Herbie Hancock |
Takin' Off |
Hard Bop,
Post-Bop
|
Modal Jazz
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1962 |
50 |
1939 |
Rahsaan Roland Kirk |
The Inflated Tear |
Post-Bop
|
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1968 |
51 |
1954 |
Benny Carter |
Further Definitions |
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Swing
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1962 |
52 |
1977 |
Rahsaan Roland Kirk |
Rip, Rig and Panic |
Post-Bop
|
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1965 |
53 |
1984 |
Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie |
Bird & Diz |
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1952 |
54 |
2000 |
Lee Morgan |
Search for the New Land |
Post-Bop
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1966 |
55 |
2023 |
Clifford Brown & Max Roach |
Study in Brown |
Hard Bop
|
|
1955 |
56 |
2029 |
Ornette Coleman |
Something Else!!!! |
Hard Bop
|
|
1958 |
57 |
2039 |
Joe Henderson |
Page One |
Hard Bop
|
|
1963 |
58 |
2072 |
Miles Davis |
Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet |
Hard Bop
|
|
1958 |
59 |
2081 |
Sonny Rollins |
Tenor Madness |
Hard Bop
|
|
1956 |
60 |
2087 |
Herbie Hancock |
Empyrean Isles |
Hard Bop
|
|
1964 |
61 |
2125 |
Art Blakey Quintet |
A Night at Birdland Vol. 2 |
Hard Bop
|
|
1954 |
62 |
2128 |
Wes Montgomery |
Full House: Recorded 'Live' at Tsubo - Berkeley, California |
Hard Bop
|
|
1962 |
63 |
2186 |
Grant Green |
Idle Moments |
Hard Bop
|
|
1965 |
64 |
2242 |
Eric Dolphy |
At the Five Spot, Vol. 1 |
Post-Bop
|
Avant-Garde Jazz
|
1961 |
65 |
2310 |
Cannonball Adderley |
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! - Live at 'The Club' |
Hard Bop
|
Soul Jazz
|
1967 |
66 |
2311 |
Wynton Kelly Trio & Wes Montgomery |
Smokin' at the Half Note |
Hard Bop
|
|
1965 |
67 |
2335 |
Larry Young |
Unity |
Post-Bop
|
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1966 |
68 |
2355 |
Thelonious Monk |
Monk's Dream |
Hard Bop
|
|
1963 |
69 |
2409 |
Wynton Kelly |
Kelly Blue |
Hard Bop
|
|
1959 |
70 |
2443 |
Thelonious Monk |
Thelonious Monk Trio |
Hard Bop
|
|
1953 |
71 |
2444 |
Joe Henderson |
Inner Urge |
Hard Bop
|
|
1966 |
72 |
2530 |
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane |
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane |
Hard Bop
|
|
1963 |
73 |
2658 |
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers |
A Night in Tunisia |
Hard Bop
|
|
1961 |
74 |
2681 |
Miles Davis |
E.S.P. |
Post-Bop
|
|
1965 |
75 |
2698 |
Wynton Marsalis |
Black Codes (from the Underground) |
Post-Bop
|
|
1985 |
76 |
2725 |
Freddie Hubbard |
Hub-Tones |
Hard Bop
|
|
1962 |
77 |
2728 |
John McLaughlin |
Extrapolation |
Post-Bop
|
|
1969 |
78 |
2774 |
Horace Silver |
Blowin' the Blues Away |
Hard Bop
|
|
1959 |
79 |
2814 |
John Coltrane |
Crescent |
Post-Bop
|
Avant-Garde Jazz
|
1964 |
80 |
2818 |
Kenny Burrell |
Midnight Blue |
Hard Bop
|
|
1963 |
81 |
2834 |
John Coltrane |
Africa/Brass |
Hard Bop,
Post-Bop
|
Modal Jazz
|
1961 |
82 |
2853 |
Steve Lacy |
Reflections: Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk |
Post-Bop
|
|
1959 |
83 |
2857 |
Charles Mingus |
Oh Yeah |
Post-Bop
|
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1962 |
84 |
2884 |
Lee Morgan |
Cornbread |
Hard Bop
|
|
1967 |
85 |
2888 |
John Coltrane |
Live at Birdland |
Post-Bop
|
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1964 |
86 |
2889 |
Wayne Shorter |
Adam's Apple |
Hard Bop,
Post-Bop
|
|
1967 |
87 |
2900 |
Booker Little |
Out Front |
Hard Bop
|
|
1961 |
88 |
2906 |
John Coltrane |
Coltrane Plays the Blues |
Hard Bop
|
|
1962 |
89 |
2912 |
Art Blakey |
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk |
Hard Bop
|
|
1958 |
90 |
2938 |
Thelonious Monk |
Thelonious Himself |
Hard Bop
|
|
1957 |
91 |
2947 |
Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Stitt |
For Musicians Only |
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1956 |
92 |
2950 |
Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster |
Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster/Blue Saxophones |
Post-Bop
|
|
1959 |
Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000: |
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Charles Mingus |
Mingus at Antibes |
Post-Bop
|
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1976 |
|
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Miles Davis |
My Funny Valentine: Miles Davis in Concert |
Post-Bop
|
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1965 |
|
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Miles Davis |
Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet |
Hard Bop
|
|
1959 |
|
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Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins & Sonny Stitt |
Sonny Side Up |
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1958 |
|
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Clifford Brown & Max Roach |
At Basin Street |
Hard Bop
|
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1956 |
|
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Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette |
Standards Live |
Post-Bop
|
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1986 |
|
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Milt Jackson and Wes Montgomery |
Bags Meets Wes! |
Hard Bop
|
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1962 |
|
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John Coltrane |
Soultrane/John Coltrane 2-LP |
Hard Bop
|
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1958 |
|
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Dizzy Gillespie |
At Newport |
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Big Band
|
1958 |
|
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Freddie Hubbard |
Red Clay |
Post-Bop
|
Soul Jazz
|
1970 |
|
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Phineas Newborn Jr. |
A World of Piano! |
Hard Bop
|
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1961 |
|
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Bobby Timmons |
This Here Is Bobby Timmons |
Hard Bop
|
Soul Jazz
|
1960 |
|
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Johnny Griffin |
A Blowin' Session |
Hard Bop
|
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1957 |
|
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McCoy Tyner |
Sahara |
Post-Bop
|
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1972 |
|
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Thelonious Monk |
Misterioso |
Post-Bop
|
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1958 |
|
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Sun Ra and The Arkestra |
Sound of Joy |
Post-Bop
|
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1968 |
|
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Roy Haynes |
Out of the Afternoon |
Post-Bop
|
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1962 |
|
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Milt Jackson and John Coltrane |
Bags & Trane |
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Cool Jazz
|
1961 |
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Sonny Rollins |
East Broadway Run Down |
Post-Bop
|
Avant-Garde Jazz
|
1966 |
|
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Eric Dolphy with Booker Little |
Far Cry |
Post-Bop
|
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1962 |
|
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Bill Evans |
Conversations with Myself |
Post-Bop
|
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1963 |
|
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers |
Free for All |
Hard Bop
|
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1965 |
|
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Eric Dolphy |
Out There |
Post-Bop
|
|
1960 |
|
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Eric Dolphy |
Outward Bound |
Hard Bop
|
|
1960 |
|
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Art Blakey |
The Jazz Messengers |
Hard Bop
|
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1956 |
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Joe Henderson |
Mode for Joe |
Hard Bop
|
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1966 |
|
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Miles Davis |
In Person Friday Night at the Black Hawk, San Francisco Vol. 1 |
Hard Bop
|
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1961 |
|
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Yusef Lateef |
Live at Pep's |
Hard Bop
|
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1964 |
|
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Wynton Marsalis |
Live at Blues Alley |
Hard Bop
|
|
1988 |
|
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Thelonious Monk |
The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall |
Hard Bop
|
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1959 |
|
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Thelonious Monk |
Thelonious in Action: Recorded at the Five Spot Cafe, New York City |
Hard Bop
|
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1958 |
|
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Gary Burton |
Duster |
Post-Bop
|
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1967 |
|
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Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson |
Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House |
Hard Bop
|
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1958 |
|
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Charles Mingus |
Changes One |
Post-Bop
|
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1975 |
|
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Miles Davis & John Coltrane |
Live in Stockholm 1960 |
Hard Bop
|
|
1985 |
|
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Miles Davis |
Filles de Kilimanjaro |
Post-Bop
|
|
1969 |
|
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Coleman Hawkins |
The Hawk Flies High |
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1957 |
|
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Phil Woods |
Musique du Bois |
Hard Bop
|
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1974 |
|
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Freddie Hubbard |
Open Sesame |
Hard Bop
|
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1960 |
|
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Eric Dolphy |
Iron Man |
Post-Bop
|
Avant-Garde Jazz
|
1969 |
|
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Clifford Brown |
Clifford Brown with Strings |
Hard Bop
|
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1955 |
|
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Jackie McLean |
One Step Beyond |
Post-Bop
|
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1963 |
|
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk |
Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith |
Post-Bop
|
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1967 |
|
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Sonny Rollins |
Plus 4 |
Hard Bop
|
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1956 |
|
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Hampton Hawes |
This Is Hampton Hawes: Vol. 2, The Trio |
Hard Bop
|
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1956 |
|
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Max Roach |
Max Roach + 4 |
Hard Bop
|
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1956 |
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Cecil Taylor |
Jazz Advance |
Post-Bop
|
Avant-Garde Jazz
|
1956 |
|
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Grant Green |
Born to Be Blue |
Hard Bop
|
Cool Jazz
|
1985 |
|
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Jackie McLean |
Destination... Out! |
Post-Bop
|
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1964 |
|
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Freddie Hubbard |
Ready for Freddie |
Hard Bop
|
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1961 |
|
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Tina Brooks |
True Blue |
Hard Bop
|
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1960 |
|
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Cannonball Adderley |
In San Francisco |
Hard Bop
|
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1959 |
|
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John Coltrane |
Coltrane Jazz |
Hard Bop
|
|
1961 |
|
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Art Blakey |
Ugetsu/Thermo |
Hard Bop
|
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1963 |
|
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Charles Mingus |
Town Hall Concert |
Post-Bop
|
Avant-Garde Jazz
|
1964 |
|
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Kenny Dorham |
Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia |
Hard Bop
|
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1956 |
|
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Charles Mingus |
The Great Concert of Charles Mingus |
Post-Bop
|
Avant-Garde Jazz
|
1970 |
|
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Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane |
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall |
Hard Bop
|
|
2005 |
|
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John Coltrane |
Coltrane's Sound |
Hard Bop
|
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1964 |
|
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Art Farmer |
Farmer's Market |
Hard Bop
|
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1958 |
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Sonny Rollins |
Work Time |
Hard Bop
|
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1956 |
|
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Charles Mingus |
The Clown |
Post-Bop
|
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1957 |
|
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Blue Mitchell |
The Thing to Do |
Hard Bop
|
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1964 |
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Ike Quebec |
Blue and Sentimental |
Hard Bop
|
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1961 |
|
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Dizzy Gillespie |
Duets/Dizzy, Rollins & Stitt |
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1958 |
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Freddie Hubbard |
Goin' Up |
Hard Bop
|
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1961 |
|
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk |
We Free Kings |
Hard Bop,
Post-Bop
|
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1962 |
|
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Art Blakey |
Mosaic |
Hard Bop
|
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1961 |
|
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McCoy Tyner |
Trident |
Post-Bop
|
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1975 |
|
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Miles Davis |
Miles Davis All Star Sextet/Walkin' |
Hard Bop
|
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1955 |
|
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Sonny Rollins |
Newk's Time |
Hard Bop
|
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1958 |
|
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John Coltrane |
Coltrane |
Post-Bop
|
Modal Jazz
|
1962 |
|
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Sun Ra Arkestra |
Sunrise in Different Dimensions |
Post-Bop
|
Free Jazz
|
1981 |
|
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Bobby Hutcherson |
Dialogue |
Post-Bop
|
Avant-Garde Jazz,
Modal Jazz
|
1965 |
|
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Sun Ra and His Arkestra |
Super-Sonic Jazz |
Post-Bop
|
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1957 |
|
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Thelonious Monk |
Live at the It Club |
Hard Bop
|
|
1982 |
|
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Freddie Hubbard |
Breaking Point! |
Hard Bop
|
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1964 |
|
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Jackie McLean |
Bluesnik |
Hard Bop
|
|
1961 |
|
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John Coltrane |
Afro Blue Impressions |
Hard Bop
|
|
1977 |
|
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Booker Ervin |
The Freedom Book |
Post-Bop
|
|
1964 |
|
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Charles Mingus |
Mingus Dynasty |
Post-Bop
|
|
1960 |
|
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Dexter Gordon |
Doin' Allright |
Hard Bop
|
|
1961 |
|
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Krzysztof Komeda |
Astigmatic |
Post-Bop
|
Avant-Garde Jazz
|
1966 |
|
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Thelonious Monk |
At the Blackhawk |
Hard Bop
|
|
1960 |
|
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Tina Brooks |
Back to the Tracks |
Hard Bop
|
|
1985 |
|
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Andrew Hill |
Judgment! |
Post-Bop
|
|
1964 |
|
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Herbie Hancock |
V.S.O.P |
Post-Bop
|
Jazz Fusion
|
1976 |
|
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Grant Green |
Green Street |
Hard Bop
|
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1961 |
|
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Phineas Newborn Jr. |
The Great Jazz Piano of Phineas Newborn Jr. |
Hard Bop
|
|
1963 |
|
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Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins |
Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins |
Hard Bop
|
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1957 |
|
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Ornette Coleman |
Tomorrow Is the Question! |
Hard Bop
|
|
1959 |
|
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Sam Rivers |
Contours |
Post-Bop
|
Avant-Garde Jazz
|
1965 |
|
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Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra |
Rocket Number Nine Take off for the Planet Venus/Interstellar Low Ways |
Post-Bop
|
|
1965 |
|
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Andrew Hill |
Black Fire |
Post-Bop
|
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1964 |
|
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Sam Rivers |
Fuchsia Swing Song |
Hard Bop
|
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1965 |
|
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Art Blakey |
At the Jazz Corner of the World Vol. 2 |
Hard Bop
|
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1959 |
|
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Yusef Lateef |
Eastern Sounds |
Hard Bop
|
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1961 |
|
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Herbie Hancock |
V.S.O.P. - The Quintet |
Post-Bop
|
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1977 |
|
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Lee Morgan |
The Cooker |
Hard Bop
|
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1958 |
|
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Vijay Iyer Sextet |
Far from Over |
Post-Bop
|
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2017 |
|
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John Coltrane |
Newport '63 |
Post-Bop
|
|
1993 |